Self-Giving Quotes

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are.

Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action.

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love, not pure love. If loves means to give oneself, to become one with everything and everyone, then that is real love. Real love is total oneness with the object loved and with the Possessor of love.

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

It's only when we give to ourselves as passionately as we give of ourselves that we create the life we want and deserve.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.